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1 Peter 2:13-25, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 6:1-7, John 10:1-21

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Russell F. Anderson

... lay waste to God's sheep. We too are doors by which others enter into the fold of faith. How widely is it open? Outline: 1. Stephen was a window to God's forgiving grace (What the Apostle Paul witnessed may have led to his conversion) 2. We are windows to the eternal ... had revealed themselves to be the good shepherds. The sheep were ready to listen to the voice of their shepherd. Leslie Newbigen, in his little book, The Good Shepherd, tells of a gathering of bishops which he attended. They were discussing ...

2. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

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... help for this sermon from an article, "Is the Religion of Jesus Effeminate?" It’s in a book called Jesus and Ourselves by Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, a prominent Methodist preacher, pastor of City Temple in London starting in 1936. He points out that Christianity is a woman’s religion ... them." The hymn says: He prayed for them that did the wrong: Who follows in his train? Wouldn’t you call Stephen "manly"? And what about Paul? Would you and I have had what it takes to have stayed with him just one week ...

3. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

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King Duncan

... Easter is that God has entered human history; God has altered human history; God has exalted human history. Pastor Leslie Weatherhead reflects on what that first Good Friday must have looked like. No one would have called it “good” ... Reinard, June 1989, The Christian Herald. 2. Fred Beck, Beyond the Cross. 3. Dick Hyman, Washington Wind & Wisdom (Lexington, Massachusetts:The Stephen Greene Press, 1988). 4. The Romance of Victory by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (Pawling, N.Y.:Foundation for Christian Living, ...

4. The God Who Is Near

Isaiah 55:1-13

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King Duncan

... person of Jesus Christ. The world sees Him most clearly in us. Therefore, let us do as Isaiah tells us to: "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near." (1) Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, HOW CAN I FIND GOD? (Revell Company). (2) Stephen F. Olford, GOING PLACES WITH GOD, (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1983) (3) Dr. George Buttrick. (4) Nelson L. Price, FAREWELL TO FEAR, (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1983). (5) Susan Russell, quoted in Arthur Tonne, WITH PARABLES, (Emporia, KS: Didde, 1945). (6 ...

5. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... lost beneath the waves. A modern reader may think of the Titanic, famously unsinkable, which nonetheless sank on its maiden voyage (Leslie Allen titles this chapter, “Tyre in Terms of the Titanic,” Ezekiel 20–48, p. 78). Seafarers react to Tyre’s ... 21–37, p. 583), this is certainly not the expected reading. With the NRSV, it is best to follow the LXX here. As Stephen Cook observes, the cherubim in Ezekiel’s visions are boundary figures. With God’s chariot throne above them, and the wheelwork and ...

6. Power to Forgive

John 20:19-23

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Dennis Kastens

... He can teach me to forgive you, massa." Something very similar was stated by the first Christian martyr, Stephen, in Acts 7:59-60 where we read: And as they were stoning Stephen ... he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And ... will and grudges help to make these people sick. Forgiveness will do more toward getting them well than any medication." Leslie D. Weatherhead echoes this same truth when he says, "The forgiveness of God, in my opinion, is the most ...

7. Job Is for Real

Job 1:1, 2:1-10

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Donna Schaper

... grow, the more the earth will suffer and the more we will suffer. What is great about Job, according to both McKibben and Stephen Mitchell, the poet who does the translation of Job many use today, is his refusal to accept the conventional wisdom. Job refuses to ... the city, as a whole was in 1853 in an electrotyped woodcut, "Bird's Eye View of the City of New York" from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News encompassed the town as a whole. These new panoramic views of the city changed the way the city saw itself. We ...

8. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

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King Duncan

... was clear. Tillman had been shot by his own men. It was accidental, but this brave young man was killed by friendly fire. Dr. Stephens goes on to say, “It often happens in combat, but in day‑to‑day life it shouldn’t be that common. Unfortunately, it is ... . This ought to be one of the most meaningful nights of our year both individually and as the family of God. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, the great British preacher, once told of talking with a member of his church about the meaning of communion. The man ...

9. Christ's Promise To His Saints

John 11:17-37

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King Duncan

... of his Los Angeles television show. According to this story Chastity had been involved in a romantic relationship with another woman, Joan Stephens, who had died of cancer eight years earlier. The reporter said, "Chastity thought that a visit to the other side could ... the dead, so shall Christ have compassion over our situation, whatever it may be, and so shall Christ grant us victory. Leslie Weatherhead, an English Methodist pastor and author, told the story of a Christian Arab who served as a guide to a ...

10. The Word that Changed the World

John 1:1-18

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King Duncan

... in our ear, “Let me introduce you to my Father.” Christ translated God’s love into human flesh. When you have seen Christ, the Word of God, you have seen God. 1. martysjotd@hotmail.com. Cited by Leslie Schultz, http://www.lesandhelga.com/sermons/2007/123106.htm. 2. Cited by Stephen Palmer, http://www.2preslex.org/S021229.HTM. 3. C. Edward Bowen, Emphasis, Nov/Dec. 1999, p. 60. 4. Be Complete (IL: Victor Books, 1981), p. 135. 5. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1999). 6. The Rev. Frank ...

11. A Man Named Useful

Philemon 1:8-25

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King Duncan

... fellow Christians. Just because a person bears the name of Christ does not mean that he or she has the heart of Christ. Pastor Stephen Fetter tells about a female friend who went through a divorce. This woman’s father was a very strict fundamentalist pastor. When she moved ... /cs/2003seniortour/g/bldef_mulligan.htm. 5. http://www.foresthilluc.org/sermons/FeelingJudgedhtml.html. 6. Cited by Leslie Schultz, http://www.lesandhelga.com/sermons/2004/022204.htm. 7. Atlanta Constitution online, December 9, 2002. ...

12. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Stephen M. Crotts

According to a recent poll only about ten percent of American males say they have a good friend. And while women fare somewhat better, neither do they set a record. Why is this? I believe it is because we place such an emphasis on doing, producing, and having that we have very little time and energy left for developing relationships. In short, we'd rather have things than people. Actually, the Bible predicts this is how it will be in the end of times. Revelation 18:11-13 describes the economy of Babylon, ...

13. Make Up Your Mind!

1 Kings 18:16-46

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Robert Leslie Holmes

Why hasn’t Hollywood made this into a major motion picture epic? 1 Kings 18 is surely one of the most dramatic accounts in all literature and one of the most significant historical records in the Bible. Its message and natural application are timeless. William Penn said, “Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” In our Scripture reading for today the people of Israel came together to decide no less a question than who would govern their personal and national lives, who would be their ...

14. Right-Handed Sinners!

Mark 9:42-50

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Robert Leslie Holmes

For the above title, I reach back across Matthew's more detailed record of the same message where he recalls that Jesus specified the right hand, "If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off" (Matthew 5:30). That might be significant because research indicates the somewhere around 85% of humans are right-hand dominant, and it could mean that Jesus is not just saying that a sinning hand should be excised but that even if it is the dominant hand that sins it must go! Let us think about it, and ...

15. This Spirit Is Not Spooky

John 14:15-21

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Robert Leslie Holmes

These words were spoken just hours before the greatest act of love in world history, the death on a cross of God's incarnate Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He died in our place so that everyone who believes on him (Mark you, not in, but on him -- and there is a difference. To believe in something can be seen as nothing more than an exercise of intellectual assent for we remember that we are told, "Even the demons believe -- and shudder" [James 2:19]. To believe "on" him means to lay our whole lives on him and ...

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